CAD Designer - Belfast - Salary £38700 (36 hour week)

Your New Company

A global provider of sustainable packaging solutions.

Your New Role

You will work as a CAD Designer. In this position, you will be responsible for all the response elements of a customer brief and delivering sustainable packaging/carton design solutions for world-class global brands. From concept to supply, exceed customer, environmental and production demands into creative packing proposals and provide a range of alternatives for review.

You will report to the CAD Manager and be part of the CAD team. Whilst working in this role your core duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Create and provide innovative packaging designs which meet the customer and company’s requirements, ensuring brief responses are delivered right first time • Research existing products, ideas and patents and provide “added value” packaging alternatives on new and existing carton designs • Liaison with Customers, Design Studios, Sales Team, Prepress and Production Departments in bringing prototypes to the marketplace • Provide visual packaging concepts through structural prototypes & technical drawings • Assist in the generation of future pipelines for potential opportunities • Create multi-up layouts for pricing/tooling orders • Carrying out associated administration and documentation • Undertake Special Projects • Adhere to the Company’s confidentiality rules and procedures at all times.

What You'll Need To Succeed

In order to be considered for this role you will need to display the following skills, experience and qualifications:

Experience & Education

Educated to degree-level standard • Relevant design experience within the folding carton industry • Track record of developing innovative carton/packaging design solutions • Literate in ArtiosCAD or similar bespoke Packaging Software • Sample Prototyping • Relevant experience working to a design brief, within the constraints of a budget and deadline • High calibre designs and presentations • Pro-actively identifying opportunities.

Personal Attributes

Meticulous attention to detail • Take project from initial brief right the way through to finished high-quality, customer-facing design presentation • An eye for emerging new trends • Understanding Customers desire to encompass sustainability and environmentally friendly approaches to developing solutions • Self-motivated • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Conceptual thinker able to research new concepts • Ability to plan and organise workload effectively to meet specified deadlines • Excellent customer service • Innovative and highly creative whilst listening carefully to customer requirements • Ability to deal with customer requests for multiple design amendments and being prepared to rework them, sometimes at short notice to meet deadlines • Team player that is open to collaboration while seeking solutions • Passion to excel and challenge the traditions of packaging design.

Desirable Criteria

Degree in packaging design • Competency in ArtiosCad software • Experienced in the use of Kongsberg (or similar) sample tables • Ability to design layouts for pricing & progressing same to full tooling orders • Travelling from a reasonable commuting distance to Belfast.

What You'll Get In Return

This role offers a salary of £38700 for working a 36 hour week. Some flex is available re: standard working hours with an early finish also factored in on a Friday.

What You Need To Do Now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.